Ian Coldwater 👻🌿Jul 20, 2024

PSA: delete your old Photobucket account now! Don’t put it off.

You know those emails you’ve been getting for a year from Photobucket threatening to delete your old account and you were like lol who cares and ignored them?

Turns out they didn’t delete them anyway, they repurposed the business as a broker of biometric data to AI companies and they’re using your old pictures for that. You have to actually go in and delete your account to opt out, and you only have until Monday, July 22 to do it.

Show threadLaloofah

@ian I
The email I got says this at the bottom:

“If you do not agree with the updated Terms of Use, the updated Privacy Policy, and/or the new Biometric Information Privacy Policy, you can opt-out within forty-five (45) days of July 22nd by deleting your account.”

Sure sounds like we have until 6 weeks after Monday, but I don’t trust ‘em or plan to wait.

Jul 21, 2024 at 1:45amWeb
Show threadLaloofahJul 23, 2024
@ian I just went through the process & it was surprisingly easy & quick. Still annoyed I had to do it but am glad to have all my images back in my possession (& nicely organized!) & in their original, unvandalized-by-ugly-watermarks condition.
For anyone interested, this was the process I went thru after requesting & getting (by email) my temp login: